Episode seven! Warning: This chapter contains incest. In fact all chapters for this episode probably will as well. And maybe some twincest later on. And yuri. If you don't like any of that stuff then just don't read this episode. Simple!
Rozen Maiden: Märchen
EPISODE SEVEN
Flower Topped Surprise
The first indication that it was going to be a bad day came when the doorbell rang and Jun went to answer it. No sooner had he turned the handle did the door fly into his face and send him sprawling onto his back sporting a very sore nose. Through the haze of pain and tears he managed to fix his blurry vision upon the sight of a doll case floating above him. It opened and Suigintou smiled cheerfully down at him, evidently in a good mood.
"Hello Jun, I thought I'd come in the traditional way this time; through the front door."
Jun staggered to his feet and adjusted his glasses, scowling at the doll as he struggled to resist the overwhelming urge to grab her and shake some of his anger off on her. "It's traditional to wait for the door to open first," he snapped.
"Oh come now, don't look so glum. I came all this way to treat you to some of my wonderful culinary delights, you should be overjoyed. By the way, where's Shinku?"
Jun shut the front door and stalked past her as he made for the living room. "This way."
Shinku was indeed in the living room, drinking some tea that Jun had recently prepared for her. It was his third batch, the previous two attempts being so atrociously made that Shinku had actually slapped him with her hair and declared that he was 'slipping'. Yes, it really was not shaping up to be a good day at all.
"Oh my, if it isn't the blushing newlywed!" Suiseiseki sniggered as Jun and Suigintou entered the room. "How's Megu adjusting to married life?"
Suigintou decided that the best way to deal with the most annoying of the Rozen Maidens was to completely ignore her. She lowered her case and hopped out, before taking a hold of the handle and swinging it around into Jun's shin. He cried out in pain and clutched at his thoroughly abused limb, whereupon Suigintou dropped her case onto his toes. The result was as impressive as it was eye watering to see.
"Take my case and put it with the rest," she commanded as if she owned him, "Quickly now, you're making the place look untidy. And stop shouting, it's distracting."
"AARRRGHH! STOP HITTING ME! And stop bossing me around, this is MY house you rotten evil doll!"
Suigintou simply ignored him and strode past a stunned looking Suiseiseki, who was gazing in admiration at her handiwork. Suigintou had only been in the house for about thirty seconds and already she had Jun up to ear-splitting decibels. It was almost impressive.
"Suigintou is correct, Jun, kindly stop shouting. You are disturbing the entire household," said Shinku, hopping off her chair. Jun picked up Suigintou's case and contemplated hurling it at one of them, but he couldn't make up his mind which. He ground his teeth in frustration instead.
"To hell with you then! I'm going up to my room; the first person who bothers me will regret it!" and with that he stormed off, grumbling and muttering profusely under his breath. They all watched him go and Suigintou rolled her eyes.
"Thank goodness, I thought he would never leave. Honestly Shinku, sometimes I wonder what you see in that boy."
Suiseiseki held her hands out in a sort of half shrug and chuckled. "Oh, he's not so bad really. And he does look good in a dress."
Suigintou stared at her for a moment before shooting Shinku a questioning look. Shinku decided to avoid the matter altogether and instead asked her big sister how her Medium was fairing. Suigintou sighed and rubbed her eyes, indicating that she'd had a few sleepless nights. "She's doing well," she admitted, "She just moved back in with her parents. Which means that sooner or later I'm going to have to move my case into her room."
"Is that not a good thing?" Shinku asked. Suigintou shrugged and strolled over to examine one of the floorboards, which contained a bright crayon drawing of a butterfly, courtesy of Hinaichigo.
"Oh! You're here then!"
That was Nori, who'd entered the living room clutching several shopping bags. Suigintou watched as the girl waved and set the bags down on the kitchen table. She smiled brightly at them. "Jun told me you were coming over to make dinner for everyone today, so I went out and made sure we had enough things in for you."
"Why, thank you," Suigintou said sincerely, provoking an astonished look from Suiseiseki. The Gardener frowned and rubbed the back of her head, as if something had struck her there.
"Geez, I am so not used to you being nice. Well I guess it's okay, just so long as you stick with it."
Suigintou walked over to her and leaned close, so that their faces were mere inches apart. Suiseiseki leaned back a little, feeling distinctly nervous at being so near to her normally aggressive big sister, prompting a smirk from Suigintou.
"I'll do my best..."
They had to bring out a second table just to provide enough seating for everyone. Tomoe arrived not long after Suigintou, bringing Hinaichigo with her, and Kanaria showed up by herself ten minutes after that, insistent that she wasn't going to be left out this time. It would be a crowded dinner.
Barasuishou was not hiding in her case anymore, and was instead acting in a very strange manner. She'd started off by following Suiseiseki around and mimicking her every word and gesture, which annoyed Suiseiseki no end. Then when Souseiseki came back from visiting grandfather, the Enju doll had run up to her and swiped her hat. She'd put it on herself, twirled around and giggled a lot, before returning it without a word. Souseiseki was too dumbfounded to even complain. Currently she was standing on the coffee table, playing Kanaria's violin. Well, as it happened. Kanaria herself was sitting on the couch and clapping whenever Barasuishou finished a piece.
"I can't believe you live with her," Suigintou remarked as Barasuishou took a bow to applause from Kanaria. Shinku glanced over at the two dolls, frowning.
"It was at Father's request."
Suigintou scowled and returned to stirring the hamburger mixture together. She was wearing an apron, which Shinku had told her looked quite fetching on her. "She's not a Rozen Maiden. How could Father bring her back after what she did to us?"
"I do not know," Shinku admitted, "Perhaps he wished to give her a chance to redeem herself. She has certainly assisted us of late whenever the opportunity has arisen."
There was a loud crash from the lobby, followed by much shouting. Suigintou and Shinku put aside what they were doing to go and have a peek and, curiosity getting the better of her, Kanaria joined them. This left Barasuishou alone in the room, just as she'd hoped. She carefully set the violin down and hurried over to the where dinner was being prepared, the hamburger mixture lying unattended for the moment.
"Let us make this a meal to remember."
Barasuishou made a complex gesture with her hand and conjured up a white rose. She then plucked a handful of petals from the flower and crushed them up in her palm, before gently sprinkling them into the burger mix. Grinning like a maniac, she stirred the mixture a few times until her little addition vanished, giggling as she did so.
"Flower topped indeed..."
It was a fantastic meal, everyone said so. Even Nori admitted that it was the best flower topped hamburger she'd ever tasted, and the dessert simply melted in the mouth. Suigintou seemed genuinely astonished at the success of her efforts, and did not think she had it in her. It had been a very long time since she'd actually prepared food after all.
Barasuishou continued her trend of acting weird and volunteered to clean up and do the dishes. Souseiseki offered to help, and the Enju doll accepted her offer - on the condition that she got to wear Souseiseki's hat again. Jun pointed out that the hat didn't really suit her, but she insisted. She was in a very strange mood, but since she seemed relatively happy they all let it slide without comment.
Jun finished off his homework with a little help from Tomoe and then decided to spend the rest of the afternoon relaxing on the computer. Or rather, trying his very best to enact damage control over Suiseiseki's last post on his blog. To his annoyance, people were leaving comments asking for her to post again. There was no way that was going to happen, not while he was alive.
Shinku showed up, carrying a tea tray of all things. She set it down on the floor and called out to him.
"What is it?"
"I thought you would like some tea," she said, carefully pouring him a cup, "I made it myself."
Jun gaped at her as if she'd just casually announced that aliens had invaded the planet. He had to replay the words in his head a few times just to make sure he understood correctly. "You made it? You? For real?"
"Yes. Why, shouldn't I have?"
"But ... but ... Shinku, you never make the tea. Are you feeling okay?"
Shinku finished pouring the tea and looked up at him with an earnest smile. "I am fine, thank you for asking ... Jun-kun."
Jun almost fell out of his chair. He carefully sat down in front of the doll, watching her with a deeply worried expression on his face. Something was very ... odd about her. She took a sip of her tea and tilted her head, still smiling. As it was, she'd just used up her quota for smiling for the day in the space of about ten seconds. She was well into overtime now.
"You seem surprised," she said.
"Yeah, you could say that."
"Well Jun, you are my Master after all. It is only fitting that I make you tea."
Jun's heart skipped a beat, possibly two. Master? Master? "What did you just call me?"
Shinku set her tea down and clasped her hands together in her lap. She smiled at him almost bashfully, as if she were a schoolgirl on her first date. "Master. You are my Master, Jun-kun, and I am your doll. I am yours to command. If there's anything I can do for you, please don't hesitate to ask."
Jun peered at her closely and gave an experimental sniff of the air. "Shinku, are you drunk?"
Shinku leaned forwards and whispered to him. "Only on you..."
Jun was saved from heart failure when his bedroom door opened and his sister poked her head in. He scrambled to his feet as she gestured to him. "Nori! Oh thank ... what is it?" He edged around Shinku, casting her a worried glance. She may not be drunk, but there was something very wrong with her, that much was obvious.
"Jun, could you come with me for a second? I need to show you something," Nori said, sounding as worried as he felt. He groaned. What now? Was one of the other dolls acting weird as well? He dreaded to think what else was going on. If it could make Shinku act like that, it had to be pretty serious.
"But Jun, your tea will get cold," Shinku called after him on his way out the door.
"I'll be right back!" He shouted back at her, following his sister across the hall to her own bedroom. She ushered him into the room and he cast his gaze about, searching for some sign of doll-related trouble. It took him a few seconds to realise that there was no one there and everything seemed perfectly normal. At least, right up until Nori shut the door and locked it. Jun spun to face her, and noted with some concern that she had a very strange look in her eyes.
"Uh, Nori, what's going on?"
Nori leaned against the door, smiling impishly at him. "Oh, nothing much Jun-kun. Just you and me, alone together..."
He really didn't like the sound of that at all. Not one bit. He backed up a step and swallowed. "You said you had something to show me?"
It was a stupid question and he should have known better than to ask it under the bizarre circumstances, but it was too late. Nori reached down and pulled her sweater up, treating Jun to an unhindered view of her chest. Horrified, he flung his arm over his face to cover his eyes and turned away, blushing furiously. "NORI! What the hell are you doing?!"
Before he knew it she was standing right behind him. She wrapped her arms around him and pulled him close, and he felt her breath against the back of his neck. He very nearly screamed at that point.
"Oh Jun-kun, you don't know how long I've waited for this," she moaned. Moaned. Dear god, he did not need to hear that! He tried to pull himself away, but Nori only tightened her grip on him. Worse, she started to let her hands wander. Jun almost gagged.
"This is crazy, let go of me! What the heck is the matter with you? Have you gone insane or something?"
He continued to struggle and for a bright shining moment he actually felt Nori's hold lessen. Unfortunately she'd simply let go of him, and since he was trying to force himself away from her this resulted in him falling flat on his face. Onto her bed, as it happened. Goodbye Bad, hello Worse. He then made the awful mistake of turning over, instead of, say, scrambling away as fast as he possibly could, and a split second later was treated to the mind-numbing sensation of having his sister on top of him. Not even in his worst nightmares did he ever imagine a situation like this.
"I've dreamt about this ever since I can remember," Nori told him, a look of hunger on her face. The kind of look a diabetic has while staring at a large chocolate covered chocolate cake. Jun couldn't move, he was paralysed with horror.
"Okay Nori, I really hope you're not saying what I think you're saying," he murmured fervently, "Because you know I'm your brother right? Your brother. I'm family. You do know that, right?"
Any hopes he might have had of talking some sense into her disappeared completely as his words only seemed to drive her onwards, making her even more eager if that were possible. "I know that Jun, I really do," she said, "That's why I've never done anything like this before. It's wrong. You're my brother and I shouldn't be having thoughts like these about you. But I just can't help myself anymore. I can't take it. I want you to be my first, Jun-kun, and I want to be yours."
What the hell do you say to that? Seriously, what the hell is anyone supposed to say to that, besides a rather obvious 'No!'. But she didn't look like she would take no for an answer. So Jun went to the next most obvious solution under the circumstances: he screamed for help. He didn't get very far though, as Nori clamped a hand over his mouth and raised a finger to her own.
"Shhhh! Be quiet now, and I promise you'll enjoy this."
"No I wont! I really really wont!" Jun insisted the second she removed her hand. "Please Nori, think about this. This isn't you - something's making you act this way. Shinku was acting weird as well."
Nori pouted, actually pouted at him. "Shinku. It's always Shinku with you, isn't it? Why can't you give some love to your big sis? I mean a girl has needs, you know?"
"That does it!" Jun, finally finding strength in his limbs, forced his sister off. He shoved her back and then rolled across the bed like caffeine-high ninja, landing lightly on his feet on the side opposite her. This put the bed between them, a nice buffer. Well ... a buffer at any rate. Nori for her part pouted some more.
"Please Jun-kun! I want my first time to be with you! I want to give you my virginity!"
"Keep it!" Jun yelled back at her, "I have my own!" The window? Could he maybe dive out of the window and survive? Sure he might break an ankle or even a leg, but considering the alternatives...
Nori jumped up onto the bed and threw herself at him. With reflexes he didn't even know he had, Jun managed to dodge out of the way, resulting in his sister falling flat on her face. Jun didn't hold out any hope that this would knock some sense into her, and immediately ran for the door. He struggled with the handle for several seconds in a blind panic, and only then realized that she'd locked the damn thing. Just as he managed to unlock it Nori grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around. She pushed him up against the door and leaned forwards to kiss him square on the lips. By an amazing stroke of luck Jun managed to turn the door handle, and their combined weight leaning against it caused it to fly open and drop the pair onto the floor outside.
Shinku stared at them.
"I see," she said with such coldness that frost almost formed on Jun's glasses, "So that is how it is then."
Aghast, Jun flailed his arm out in her direction, his other arm pinned by his sister, who was lying on top of him again and showing every sign of enjoying her predicament. "Wait, Shinku! This isn't what it looks like!"
"Yes it is what it looks like!" Nori declared very unhelpfully. Shinku kicked Jun in the side of the head before turning and marching off. As if he didn't have enough problems, Nori was still trying to kiss him, and now his head hurt like hell. This was quite possibly the worst day of his entire life. By some miracle though he managed to get Nori off. He leapt to his feet and ran for it, rebounding off the nearest wall first because Shinku's kick had left him slightly disoriented.
Somehow he made it to his room without Nori getting her hands on him, though he heard her wailing in the hallway. He slammed his door shut, locked it and backed away, struggling to make some sense out of what had just happened. One thing was for sure, he was going to need so much therapy after this.
As he was backing away from the door, he bumped into something. He jumped with fright and spun around to see Tomoe standing behind him. She smiled.
"Hello Jun."